TELEGRAM TO THE NOVGOROD GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Written:Written on May 20, 1919Published:First published in 1933 in LeninMiscellany XXIV.

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GuberniaExecutive CommitteeNovgorodCopy to the Extraordinary CommissionCopy to the Gubernia Commissar for Food

Apparently,Bulatov has been arrested for complaining
to me. I warn you that I shall have the chairmen of the
Gubernia Executive Committee and Extraordinary
Commission, and the members of the Executive Committee arrested
for this and will insist on their being shot. Why did you
not reply at once to my
inquiry?[1]

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Theoccasion for Lenin’s telegram was the receipt on May 20,
1919, at 7.10 p.m., of a telegram addressed to him, which reported
that on their arrival in Novgorod, after having been received by
Lenin, the Chairman of the Artel Association, A. A. Bulatov, and
the Manager of the Instructors’ Department, Lyubimov, had been
arrested.

Leninwrote the following note on the telegram he had
received: “File forhandy reference. Reply sent 20/V.”

Theinquiry mentioned by Lenin was made on May 13, 1919
(seeCollected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50, Document 567).